$17 trillion in national debt and rising — who’s crazy now?

Oh, that hilarious Mike Keefe has done it again — depicting small-government, live-within-our-means Tea Partyers as cross-eyed crazies. Please make him stop so I can wipe away my helpless tears of laughter! Of course, we do have a $17 trillion debt, it having increased by $7 trillion in just the last five years. That is about $120,000 per taxpayer, and it is going up every day thanks to a Congress that constantly raises the debt ceiling. Sure, that $17 trillion does not include unfunded liabilities of Social Security, Medicare or Obamacare, and two-thirds of it is owed to foreign countries whose interests are not the same as ours. And, of course, the Tea Party is the only group actually trying to do anything about the debt and the deficit, having rallied a minority of Republicans to at least try not to rubber-stamp the latest round of borrowing.

But, as Keefe so often depicts, the Tea Partyers are the crazy ones.

Jack Tanner, Denver

This letter was published in the Oct. 27 edition.

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